The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?